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Re: Paucity of Phonemes (was Re: Thagojian phonology...

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Monday, February 28, 2000, 9:22
Nik Taylor:
> Kristian Jensen wrote: > > where; /t[/ and /d[/ are laminal denti-alveolar, /L/ is a lateral > > fricative, /3/ is a consonantal version of /@/ (schwa - or > > more specifically a raised and centralized close-mid back > > vowel). > > What? How can /@/ be pronounced as a consonant?
Pace Tom Weir, It has been plausibly that English /r/ is the consonantal version of /@/, at least for nonrhotic accents. This explains why in nonrhotic accents, before a vowel /j/ and /w/ are inserted after high vowels and /e/ and /o/ in accents with those, and /r/ is inserted after the rest (linking/intrusive R). In Livagian too /r/ and /@/ can be argued to be the same phoneme, since the allophonic range of /r/ is a subset of the allophonic range of /@/. --And.